FastSaying
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
After
Again
Been
Behind
Body
Breaking
Bursting
Care
Danger
Defects
Faults
Heal
Imaginable
Left
Like
Mind
Out
Scar
Skin
Still
Taken
Them
Up
Will
Wounds
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